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The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. Its predecessors—the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND)—were ...
In 1898, when New York City consolidated with three neighboring counties to form "the City of Greater New York", Manhattan and the Bronx, though still one county, were established as two separate boroughs. On January 1, 1914, the New York State Legislature created Bronx County and New York County was reduced to its present boundaries. [47]
Manhattan Life Insurance Building: 1894 1964 Mills Building: 1882 1925 New York Coliseum: 1956 2000 New York World Building: 1890 1955 New York Tribune Building: 1875 1966 Parker Building: 1900 1908 Prudence Building: 1923 2016 Rogers Peet Building: 1863 1898 Singer Building: 1908 1969 St. Paul Building: 1898 1958 Studebaker Building: 1902 2004
Map of the New York City Subway and PATH systems The City Hall subway station in Manhattan has been closed to the public since 1945. Operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the Holland Tunnel is a vehicular tunnel that travels under the Hudson River, connecting Lower Manhattan to Jersey City.
Dark Days, a 2000 documentary feature film by British filmmaker Marc Singer, follows a group of people living in an abandoned section of the New York City Subway, in the area called Freedom Tunnel. [2] [3] Anthropologist Teun Voeten's book Tunnel People is also about the inhabitants of the Freedom Tunnel, where Voeten lived for five months.
Trinity Chapel, New York University (1964), 58 Washington Square South, West Village, Manhattan, New York—Built 1961–1964 to designs of Eggers and Higgins, it was the former New York University Catholic Center which was moved to the parish church of St. Joseph’s Church on Sixth Avenue at Waverly Place.
West Side Highway looking north at Gansevoort Street. The collapsed section (removed) is shown at left behind frieze. Looking north at Canal Street. The West Side Elevated Highway (West Side Highway or Miller Highway, named for Julius Miller, Manhattan borough president from 1922 to 1930) was an elevated section of New York State Route 9A (NY 9A) running along the Hudson River in the New York ...
New York was also able to attract more business and convert abandoned industrialized neighborhoods into arts or attractive residential neighborhoods; examples include the Meatpacking District and Chelsea (in Manhattan) and Williamsburg (in Brooklyn).